NEISD bus crashes into pool

Updated 5:41 pm, Thursday, January 17, 2013

Photo: BOB OWEN, San Antonio Express-News

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A North East ISD school bus came to rest in the pool at Town House Motel on 410 between Broadway and Nacogdoches, after the driver lost control, severed a utility pole and smashed through a fence on Jan. 17, 2013.. There were no students on the bus. The driver had minor injuries.

No one was seriously injured Thursday afternoon when a bus driver lost control, cracked a utility pole in half and barreled through a motel parking lot, stopping only after crashing through an iron fence and into a swimming pool.

Aubrey Chancellor, spokeswoman for the North East Independent School District, said it wasn't clear what caused the driver, who's been employed by the district for 13 months, to lose control but police are investigating.

Chancellor said the driver was on the Loop 410 access road when he began to lose control, went over a curb and struck the utility pole. The driver continued through the parking lot of the Magic Time Machine restaurant and crashed into the swimming pool of the Town House Motel next door.

The driver was treated for minor injuries at the scene. Chancellor said he was on his way to make his first pick-up of children for the afternoon routes.